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A robed magician conjures shimmering illusions of a whale, a ship, a woman's face, a castle and dancers amid a sunken city with fish.

Enchantment

Field of magic

The foundational forms of magic, such as illusion and conjuration.

From the book

Enchantment is the study of magic's most basic forms, chiefly conjuration and illusion. Magicians are its specialists: single-classed, they start with fewer spells than dual-classed rivals but rise in level faster, can often spot illusions and conjurations by observation alone, and are the only casters able to learn its mightiest spells. Enchanters and enchantresses (magician/harlequins) and thaumaturges (magician/alchemists) build on it, archimages take it as their second field, good and most neutral witches pair it with Elemental Magic, and sorcerers and wizards may choose it as their secondary study.

Illusions run from simple tricks, false sounds and multiple images through illusory objects, creatures and terrain to Hallucination, Negative Illusion and The Grand Illusion. Conjurations build from missiles and smoke to plants, animals, fire, water, earth, wind, toxic clouds and monsters, ending in The Great Conjuration and a conjured simulacrum. Around these sits a broad kit of practical magic: charm, levitation, invisibility, locking and opening, shrinking and enlarging, haste and slow, flight, teleportation, magic portals, extra-dimensional space, animated objects, transformation, and the minor and major enchantment of objects.

At a glance

Used by
Magician, Enchanter (magician/harlequin), Thaumaturge (magician/alchemist), Charlatan (first level only), Mage (Archimage), Witch (good or neutral), Sorcerer (by choice), Wizard (by choice)
Definition
The foundational kinds of magic, conjuring and illusion among them (page 68)
Practitioners
Magicians (single-classed, p. 27); archimages (mages with Enchantment as secondary field, p. 26); good and most neutral witches/warlocks (secondary, p. 42); sorcerers (optional secondary, p. 38); wizards (optional secondary, p. 45)
Related profession
Thaumaturges are essentially magicians and use the restricted cantrip Thaumaturgic Enchantment, a 1st level spell (p. 40); it is not printed in the Enchantment spell list
Spells per level
L1 12, L2 11, L3 11, L4 8, L5 7, L6 7, L7 7 (total 63)
Restriction key
* = restricted to magicians and practitioners of Enchantment only; ** = restricted to magicians only
Spell list page
76
Spell descriptions
pp. 97-102
Illusion rules
General rules for illusions (disbelief by save vs Perception on contact, harm from believed illusions) are given under the 3rd level spell Illusory Object (p. 99)

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